Author: Jouko Turkka

As you all know, this company has been my life’s work and it stands for everything I’ve had to renounce. You know that for years I have not received a penny for my personal expenses, that I am on the firm’s lowest wage level, zero.

I haven’t even had a free cup of coffee; if, because I have been working hard or I wanted to improve my concentration, I have felt like a cup of coffee, I have always gone to the canteen during my coffee break and challenged one of the boys to a bout of arm wrestling under the agreement that the loser buys the coffees, and the bloke has paid. The money never came out of the firm’s running expenses, investments, trusts or funds. More…

About the author

Jouko Turkka (1942-2016) was a Finnish theatre director and writer. He worked at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki, both as a professor and in the 1980s as rector. While there, Turkka became known for his teaching method, which emphasised the importance of physicality in the theatre. He has also published seven books.